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Published in final edited form as: J Dev Econ. 2012 Nov;99(2):10.1016/j.jdeveco.2012.03.001. doi: 10.1016/j.jdeveco.2012.03.001

Table 4.

Impact of Learning HIV Results on Economic Outcomes in 2006

Panel A: HIV Positives Savings Earnings Log expenditures Hours Working
Any
Savings
Log
Savings
Work in past
6 months
Log
Income
Medicine
(Self)
Children Farm Cash Labor Agriculture
(1) (2) (3) (4) (5) (6) (7) (8) (9)

Got Results −0.228 −1.039 −0.109 −0.125 −0.251 0.370 −0.246 1.597 −0.624
[0.152] [0.668] [0.186] [0.893] [0.439] [0.521] [0.880] [1.409] [1.387]

Observations 79 79 79 79 79 79 79 79 79
R-squared 0.310 0.370 0.096 0.248 0.220 0.279 0.227 0.226 0.230
Mean of Dependent Variable 0.23 0.95 0.87 3.82 0.61 2.26 1.19 1.35 2.41
Panel B: HIV Negatives Savings Earnings Log expenditures Hours Working
Any
Savings
Log
Savings
Work in past
6 months
Log
Income
Medicine
(Self)
Children Farm Cash Labor Agriculture
(1) (2) (3) (4) (5) (6) (7) (8) (9)

Got Results 0.021 0.204 −0.047 0.109 0.109 0.040 0.081 0.637** −0.321
[0.049] [0.190] [0.046] [0.194] [0.077] [0.174] [0.177] [0.283] [0.414]

Observations 1,734 1,734 1,734 1,734 1,734 1,734 1,734 1,734 1,734
R-squared 0.039 0.060 0.108 0.106 0.030 0.192 0.092 0.173 0.162
Mean of Dependent Variable 0.23 0.86 0.86 3.66 0.37 1.92 1.24 1.31 2.79
Minumum Detectable Effect 0.081 0.315 0.076 0.322 0.128 0.289 0.294 0.469 0.687

Notes: Each column represents an IV regression where “Got Results” is instrumented with having any incentive, the amount of the incentive, the amount of incentive squared, distance from the HIV results center, and distance from the HIV results center squared. Each of these is also interacted with gender. Standard errors are clustered by village. Also includes age and age squared, a simulated average distance to the VCT tent, a gender dummy, log expenditures at baseline, years of education, and a dummy for being married, and district fixed effects. Robust standard errors in brackets. The minimum detectable effect is the minimum effect between those who got results and those who did not, at 0.90 power.

*

significant at 10%

**

significant at 5%

***

significant at 1%